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Why Namibia invoked a century-old German genocide in international court
citing a genocide that the Germans committed in the African nation more than a century ago when it was a German colony. “On Namibian soil, #Germany committed the first genocide of the 20th ...
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Namibia to hold first commemoration of German genocide this week
Namibia this week will hold its first national commemoration for victims of mass killings by German occupiers in what is ...
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These Are the Colonies Germany Lost After World War I
Few people realize, though, that before the world wars Germany had 11 colonies in Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific. German influence is still evident in some of them, in some surprising ways.
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Togoland: Germany's first and smallest African colony
and Togoland was promoted as "a model colony." But it was a self-serving myth for German colonial administrators. Europeans had traded for centuries along the West African coast. It was known to ...
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German President asks for forgiveness in Tanzania for colonial-era atrocities
Tanganyika, now present-day Tanzania, was first a German colony before coming under British ... acknowledged its colonial-era atrocities in Africa. In 2021, it announced €1.1 billion ($1.3 ...
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WW1: Why was the first German defeat in Africa?
Keen to compete with its European rivals, Germany acquired overseas colonies like Togo ... chests of tea was captured by a German cruiser off the east coast of Africa, just two days in to the ...
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Skulls taken from colonial Africa set to return from Berlin?
A project to investigate the origins of human skulls taken from the former colony of German East Africa has concluded that nearly all are the remains of people from the same colonized region.
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Namibia to hold first commemoration of German genocide
Namibia will on Wednesday hold its first national commemoration for victims of mass killings by German occupiers in what is ...